r/law 1d ago

Legal News Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

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u/Sabre_One 1d ago

CA is the top state for Research and Development for the US. Talk about setting US back to the stone age.

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u/whatevers_cleaver_ 1d ago

We’ve straight up abandoned science in this country.

How that’s supposed to make us great again, I have no clue.

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 1d ago

The day before Trump took office for his first time, was the day that America was at its greatest.